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		<title>How to find the good stuff on iTunes U</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you have asked how I find the good stuff on iTunes U. After all, a lot of colleges offer mainly PR fluff, like virtual campus tours and welcoming speeches by the dean of students.
So, here are my secrets.  Every few days I do some of the following.
1. Survey the main iTunes U [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2212&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Academic Earth makes debut on the web</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a cool new way to get your fix of university courses and lectures&#8211;Academic Earth, a YouTube for the egghead set, is featuring videos of courses and lectures from top universities.  Universities on the menu right now: UC Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.

All of this material is already available on other websites [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1508&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You are invited to the Podcast Parlor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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University lecture courses usually come packaged with seminars or discussion sections where students can ask questions and kick around ideas.
Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice for us cyber-students if we could have something similar? Well, thanks to the work of blogger Anne at Anne is a Man, we now have the Podcast Parlor. The idea is to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1489&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many on-line courses, so little time&#8230;.  That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m glad to welcome a new writer to the academic podcast/webcast reviewing biz: Baxter Wood at the re-education of baxter wood.  Check out his new blog for his take on the world of university courses and lectures.  He likes some of my favorites [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1436&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Favorite academic blogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever wish you could eavesdrop on really smart people while they argue about the topics that interest them the most?   That&#8217;s what you get when you browse academic blogs.
A good place to browse for academic bloggers on your own  favorite topics is The Academic Blog  Portal.
I&#8217;ve started a permanent page, Favorite academic blogs, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1086&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A guide to iTunesU</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 23:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated 8/31/2008
See the updated version of this post at Guide to iTunesU.
At last count there were 79 colleges and universities featured on iTunesU, the section of Apple&#8217;s iTunes music store devoted to higher education.  There&#8217;s great free downloadable content here &#8212; lots of lectures and entire courses, but sorting through all this material can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=125&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to subscribe to a Stanford podcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 20:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a great tip via podcast review site Anne is a Man!
Although there is no obvious way to subscribe to a Stanford University podcast via iTunes, you can get all the advantages of subscriptions (ie automatic downloading of new episodes and automatic bookmarking) if you go to this Stanford iTunes webpage.
Just follow the instructions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=123&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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If you click on the &#8220;download&#8221; link for one of the courses on the Open Yale Courses website, you will see something like this:



If you want to listen to the course on your MP3 player, you&#8217;ll want to download an audio file.  Go to a [mp3] link, and click the right mouse button.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=68&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The easiest ways to find classes</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/the-easiest-routes-to-do-it-yourself-scholarship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, do you want to listen to your lectures on your MP3 player or iPod?  If so, the easiest way to find and download academic lectures or full courses is at the Apple iTunes music store.  If you don&#8217;t already have it, download a copy of the iTunes software, and after you launch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=58&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is open courseware?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the pioneer of the open courseware movement, and to date has posted materials for 1800 of its courses on the MIT open courseware site.  Other open courseware sites include:

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public      Health OpenCourseWare
Tufts OpenCourseWare
UMass Boston OpenCourseWare
Notre Dame OpenCourseWare
Utah State OpenCourseWare
UC Irvine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=52&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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